A partnership between European Forest Institute, Moray Estates and Silviculture Academy has established the first Integrate Network marteloscopes in the UK at Darnaway Forest, near Forres, Scotland. The two plots create opportunities for training in early-stage stand transformation and late-stage stand development. They are the first such plots in the UK and join a network...
In the wake of Storm Eowyn – which occurred on 24. January 2025 and brought unprecedented wind speeds and widespread disruption across Ireland – forest landscapes have suffered significant damage across the country. This Integrate Network webinar, organized under the “Forest Restoration Talks” series in collaboration with SUPERB Project, TRANSFORMIT project and FoRISK facility, brings together forestry professionals, environmental scientists, policymakers, and...
On Friday, 11th of April – right before the Easter break – Sabine Vogelgesang’s biology class did not meet for an ordinary lesson in the classroom. Instead, the 12 students and their teacher met up with Andreas Schuck, senior researcher at the European Forest Institute, at the Mooswald forest located in the City Forest of Freiburg. There...
Integrate Network chairs, Dermot Dunphy and Jonathan Spazzi, recently attended the Pro Silva Ireland conference in March. The aim of the conference was to launch the new handbook called “A Guide to Continuous Cover Forestry Practise in Ireland“. This well attended conference brought together foresters, forest owners, ecologists, researchers, educators, policymakers, and artists to discuss...
“We have the need to improve biodiversity on every scale”, says Dr. Frank Krumm, researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research and co-editor of the book How to balance forestry and biodiversity conservation: A view across Europe (2020). “This is what we know from research. It’s one of our tasks. But we also...
2.–4. June 2025 l Zurich, Switzerland Are you curious to learn more about the application of close-to-nature forest management in Switzerland and beyond? Do you want to discuss silvicultural concepts that can support forests in becoming more resilient to future disturbances and extreme climatic events? Our workshop aims to bring together diverse networks, including the...
Ein Artikel von Carolin Stiehl aus dem Jahresbericht 2023 des Zentrum für Wald und Holzwirtschaft. Lesen Sie den ganzen Jahresbericht 2023 hier.
Tree-related Microhabitats (TreMs) are crucial for biodiversity since they host thousands of species. TreMs are discrete habitat patches borne by trees and cover a wide range of lifespans, from days to decades to centuries. The taxa associated with such discrete and sometimes highly temporary habitat patches are likely to be sensitive to spatial distribution because...
“Autumn arrives, and our Integrate Meeting already comes along”, opens Bernhard Wolfslehner (EFI) this year’s Integrate Network Annual Meeting with a vivid reminder of our get-together in Luxembourg, “when we were watching bats and having a drink in a cave”. As is tradition by now, around 40 Integrate Members and other colleagues from within the network and beyond gathered end of October to discuss the European state of the art of Integrative Forest Management. This year, the current Integrate chair, Georg Frank, invited members to his home country Austria to draw attention to private forest ownership and to discuss integrative case studies and local measures for biodiversity enhancement.
The annual meeting of the Pro Silva Italia Association took place in Oulx (TO) from September 26 to 28, organized in collaboration with the Alta Valle Susa Forestry Consortium. Among the various topics addressed, the meeting focused on the management of irregular high forests in mixed mountain conifer stands, through a practical exercise in the marteloscope, which is part of...
